Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has raised the idea of holding a referendum on the decentralization of power to the country’s cities. The proposal has been immediately snubbed by pro-Russian rebels. …read more Source: Deutsche...

President concedes that ballot may be necessary for constitutional reform although he remains opposed to the conceptPresident Petro Poroshenko has endorsed a referendum on the federalisation of Ukraine, jumpstarting the reforms foreseen by the peace plan to end the conflict with Russia-backed rebels in the country’s east.“I’m ready to...

Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Bogdan Aurescu on Monday had a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart, Pavlo Klimkin, on which occasion the official of Kiev informed the dignitary of Bucharest that the procedures in Ukraine for the approval of the Agreement on the Small Border traffic are “very near completion,”...

Ukrainian government and Donetsk and Lugansk separatists will establish an online data-base, to collect together information about killed or wounded people in the Ukraine conflict. …read more Source:...

Bulgarian customs have thwarted an attempt to smuggle US dollar notes – some of them suspected to be fake – to Ukraine. Customs officers at the Danube Bridge border crossing between Bulgaria and Romania have found undeclared USD 6,500 stashed in a mini-bus travelling from Bulgaria to Ukraine with one passenger and the driver, the Customs...

Best student dance companies from Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine (Minsk, Vitebsk, Polotsk, Moscow, Smolensk, Saint Petersburg, Velikiye Luki, Rostov-on-Don, and Kiev) will compete in different genres till 9 April. The official opening ceremony of the festival will be held at the Yakub Kolas National Academic Drama Theater on 6 April. …read...

The Russian-backed separatist fighters were allegedly filmed near rebel-held Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, as they used a shoulder-fired mortar to blast a shell into a nearby pond. …read more Source: Daily...

Dmitry Yarosh, who heads the Ukrainian extremist organization “Right Sector,” has been made an adviser to the Ukrainian army chief, RT is reporting.“Colonel General Viktor Muzhenko, chief of general staff, and Dmytro Yarosh agreed the format of cooperation between Right Sector and the Ukrainian Armed Forces,” Ukraine’s defense...